How much did MILLS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of MILLS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k11 grants · $41k
$10k–50k5 grants · $98k

$5,250

Median grant

States reached

$2.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE AND WAUKESHA COUNTY INC$47,500
UNITED WAY OF COLLIER COUNTY INC$20,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC$10,000
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC$10,000
GRACE PLACE$10,000
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$8,000
YOUTH HAVEN INC$8,000
VILLAGE OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$5,250
CHAMPIONS FOR LEARNING$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$4,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$3,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION$2,000
WILLIAMS COLLEGE ALUMNI FUND$2,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION$2,000
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC$1,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$626k · 34 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$626k

$7k

Still filing today

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

UW
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE AND WAUKESHA COUNTY INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +14%
UW
UNITED WAY OF COLLIER COUNTY INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +27%
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +75%

Funded once

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SOJOURNER TRUTH HOUSE
one grant, 2020 · $3k
CP
CAPUCHIN PROVIDENCE OF ST JOSEPH
one grant, 2021 · $1k
SI
SAINT IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREPARATORY
one grant, 2020 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Cathedral Center Inc

Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…

Religion

Goodwill Manufacturing Inc

Connecting people to work. preparing people for life.

Employment

Goodwill Industries of North Central

Elevating people by eliminating barriers to employment.goodwill industries of north central wisconsin (goodwill ncw) is a nonprofit human services organization and social enterprise. its mission is "elevating people by eliminating barriers…

Human Services

Feeding Wisconsin Inc

Our vision is a hunger-free wisconsin and our mission is to help our food banks and partners fight hunger, improve health and strengthen local communities so that everybody in wisconsin has access to the food and benefits they need to…

Food & Nutrition

Group Health Cooperative of South

We partner with members and the communities we serve to maximize health and well-being.

Health

United Way of Dane County Inc

United Way of Dane County mobilizes the caring power of our community so all can thrive. From advancing health and education to strengthening livelihoods and local resilience, we connect people to possibilities. Imagine a future where…

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United Way of Wisconsin Inc

To promote on a statewide basis the interests of the united way system and the voluntary sector, in order to maximize the capacity of local united ways to address human needs.

Philanthropy

Community Care Health Plan Inc

Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.we…

Health

Greater Wausau Prosperity Partnership L

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The Community Warehouse Inc

Community warehouse is a faith-based nonprofit that is a provider of employment and job skills to background challenged individuals living in milwaukee through operation of building and supplies stores. by shopping with the organization,…

Community Improvement

Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks partners with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services

Women Winning

We are changing the face of power by activating pro-choice campaign operatives, candidates, and elected officials who are committed to reproductive health, rights and justice, and working to protect the safety, dignity and bodily autonomy…

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Golf Fore Africa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Washington University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/20

Grantees still filing

16/20

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$367,750Philanthropy$139,500Food & Nutrition$57,000Education$25,000Human Services$24,000Youth Development$13,000Housing & Shelter$12,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of Greater Milwaukee &WI17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Kolaga Family Charitable Trust · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · Windhover Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Ge Foundation · American Endowment Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation MILLS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

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⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~38383 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 841910774 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 38383 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Mills Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mills Family Charitable Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MILLS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mills Family Charitable Foundation?

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MILLS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mills Family Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph